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What to know about summer solstice, the longest day of the year

By Associated Press

Peak sunshine has arrived.

SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas explodes after ‘major anomaly’ but no injuries reported, company says

By Associated Press

The company said the Starship “experienced a major anomaly” at about 11 p.m. while on the test stand preparing for the tenth flight test at Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site at the southern tip of Texas.

Meet the moths that map the stars to fly long distances

By Adithi Ramakrishnan, Associated Press

It's an impressive feat for Bogong moths, whose brains are smaller than the size of a grain of rice, to rely on the night sky for their odyssey, said study author David Dreyer with Lund University in Sweden.

Adapting to extreme habitats set the stage for global human migration, study finds

By Christina Larson, Associated Press

“Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said Eleanor Scerri, an evolutionary archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany.

Hurricane Erick threatens to bring flooding and mudslides to Mexico’s Pacific coast

By Luis Alberto Cruz, Associated Press

Up to 20 inches of rain could fall across the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guerrero.

Eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki forces evacuations and flight cancelations

By Handrianus Belutowe, Edna Tarigan, Associated Press

The eruption alert was raised Tuesday to the highest level and the danger zone where people are recommended to leave was expanded to about 5 miles from the crater.

Nuclear waste can be temporarily stored in Texas and New Mexico, Supreme Court rules

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that invalidated the license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a private company for the facility in southwest Texas.

Can AI help solve India’s food and water insecurity?

By Fred de Sam Lazaro

One of the largest challenges facing India: how to sustain food production for 1.4 billion people amid deteriorating soil quality, diminishing water supplies and climate change. For some, including hundreds of artificial intelligence startup companies, the challenge represents a business…

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Tropical Storm Erick, located near southern Mexico, is expected to become a hurricane

By Associated Press

The National Hurricane Center said Erick was expected to rapidly intensify and become a hurricane by late Tuesday or early Wednesday.

A look at the first artificial solar eclipses created by two European satellites

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.